Submitted:
15 August 2018
Posted:
16 August 2018
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Abstract
Children with central nervous system (CNS) malignancies often suffer from high symptom burden and risk of death. Pediatric palliative care is a medical specialty, provided by an interdisciplinary team, which focuses on enhancing quality of life and minimizing suffering for children with life-threatening or life-limiting disease, and their families. Primary palliative care skills which include basic symptom management, facilitation of goals-of-care discussions, and transition to hospice can and should be developed by all providers of neuro-oncology care. This chapter will review the fundamentals of providing primary palliative care
Keywords:
Keywords: palliative care
; child
; brain
; neoplasm
; neuropathic pain
; pain
; symptoms
; hospice
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